Puritan 23"

• sold fully assembled - compare this yacht to other sellers.  just pull this model ship out of the box and display, there is no rigging to tie or mast to assemble.

• two model sizes available. 

• 20" l x 4" w x 23" h

• 27" l x 5" w x 31" h

• plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull of the ship model one at a time).

• built with rare, high quality woods.

• hand painted the actual colors of the puritan yacht

• fabric sails with detailed stitching

• no plastic parts.

• to build this model ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual yacht.

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She was built at the George Lawley & Son yard in Boston, Massachusetts and launched May 26, 1885.

Puritan was an early combination of American and English designs with some of the depth of an cutter but beam and power of a sloop. It was built and skippered by John Malcom Forbes.

Career

She defeated the New York club's Priscilla then went on to defend the cup against Genesta, a traditional cutter. Immediately following the contest, they began work on an improved version which would be called the Mayflower.